It is hard to hear and it is difficult to form an equal dialogue than the innocent play itself. Perhaps it is the most helpless part of the actresses.
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“I regret to find that I can play fewer and fewer roles.”
Not long ago, when Yao Chen was talking to Liang Wendao, he felt a little helpless in his speech: “Every day, there is a script on the bedside, but because you start to have something you want to express, there are no ways for some characters. What should I do at this time? If I have been waiting passively, for an actress, it is limited in terms of appearance, etc. Who wants to see a 30-year-old when you are 50? ?”
However, when Yao Chen chose not to be passive or “active”, the female-themed movie “Send me to Qingyun” starring and supervised by her was splashed with cold water by the market: 12 days after the release, this watercress The film with a score of 7.3 points only received 23.51 million box office. The expression of Yao Chen’s hope has not been heard by more people.
“Send me to Qingyun”
After more than half a month before the release of “Send me to Qingyun”, at the 13th FIRST closing ceremony, Haiqing, who had just awarded the award, shouted Zhou Dongyu, who was preparing to step down, and shouted Yao Chen and Liang Jing to the stage together. It tells the story of middle-aged actresses who have no play. However, in the hot search of the next day, in addition to supporting the sound, it is also full of doubts about Hai Qing’s “selling misery” and even ridicule.
It’s hard to hear, and it’s hard to form an equal dialogue than the innocent play itself. Perhaps it’s the most helpless part of the actress.
Two years ago, Hollywood actress Eliza Milano and others set off a mighty MeToo campaign in Hollywood and began to speak on behalf of female filmmakers. In the past two years, this movement has swept the world, and a large number of female filmmakers have stood up one after another. I hope that in the “power first” film circle, we will strive for an equal stage for women and prove to people that they are not just vassals.
metoo sports
But is this sport that begins with female filmmakers, is it enough to stop only for women? Many Chinese actresses can’t be said to be unsettled, but they are not obsessed. However, when they have experienced the accumulation of years and have rich experience in life and career, it is not “harvesting” and “free” waiting for them. It is a narrower road to play and a prejudice that cannot be ignored.
On the surface, no play can be just the actor’s predicament, but it is inseparable from the entire industry and even the entire social system. As the director of Teng Cong Cong, who sent me to Qingyun, said that the expansion of a type of subject matter is far from limited, the actors in each social system need to reflect, explore, promote and change together.
How to break such a dilemma and end such helplessness? To this end, the drug scorpion (WeChat ID: youhaoxifilm) interviewed three senior female film practitioners, together with them from the industrial structure and social environment, to discuss actresses, female directors, female screenwriters, women-made films… to change this The efforts and persistence of the industry.
We believe that “the world is not only a way of looking at it, but the market should not have only one perspective.”
“The cruelty of competition is not necessarily reflected in gender and age”
“Hands”, “Heart”, “The Night” Director: Yang Yang
Every time I see the hot discussion about middle-aged actresses in the society, I will be very touched. First, I reminded me that many actresses who have worked with me before have almost reached this age stage; It comes because actors are indeed a passive and subject to a variety of factors, not just age and gender.
Young faces always have more exposure, which is understandable, and the audience will be more curious than middle-aged actresses. But aging is a natural objective law. A good creation should not be limited by the age of the actors.
Compared with foreign countries, you can see the wonderful performances of middle-aged actresses in many excellent works. For example, in Hollywood, some of the more popular actors and more popular actors still have a certain age. of